CHAPTER L

Lodges and Churches

PORTLANDVILLE LODGE, I. O. O. F.

A lodge of this honored order wa organized in the village of Milford, March 16, 1850, with the following officers: Avery K. Briggs, N.G.; S. Loomis Russell V.G.; James Sweet, Sec.; John Stewart, Treas. This lodge was moved to Portlandville in Aug. 5, 1854.

The present officers are as follows: George Bartlett, N.G.; Norman Stone, V. G.; R. M. Townsend, Sec.; Asa D. Squier, Treas. The present membership of the lodge is twenty-eight.

GOOD TEMPLARS

A lodge of Good Templars was instituted at Portlandville in July, 1863, by A. S. Draper